How to Transfer Tapes and Vinyl on to CD

Many of us still rooms full of vinyl and box’s filled with broken tapes featuring dust broken cases. many of us still consider this our prime music collection, yet we never listen to any of them due the inconvenience of of setting up old sytems. Hell, I dont even have a record player anymore but my home features same said room filled with records I never listen to …
The answer??? ……Digitize them!!!

The basics you will need are:

A turntable or cassette player

A Computer

A computer sound card

A CD burner or other storage medium

Any Recording Software

Here is the basic process:

Connect the outputs of your turntable to a phono preamp

Connect the outputs of your phono preamp to the inputs of your computer\’s sound card

Put on a record or tape and record the audio to your computer using some recording software.

Once the record is on the Computer;s hard drive you can then re-arrange the tracks or create your compilation from other recorded sources using your audio recording/CD creation software

Burn the CD

Suggested Sound Cards

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Suggested Software

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Restoration Software

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